Badgley v. Beale
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This was an appeal from the judgment of an alderman, before whom Hiram Badgley, the plaintiff in error, had recovered a claim for wages as the keeper of a billiard table for George Beale, the defendant in error.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This was an appeal from the judgment of an alderman, before whom Hiram Badgley, the plaintiff in error, had recovered a claim for wages as the keeper of a billiard table for George Beale, the defendant in error. On the trial, in the common pleas, it appeared in evidence that the parties had entered into a contract in the month of February 1830, by which Badgley was to enter into the service of Beale in the capacity above stated, for the sum of 250 dollars per annum, payable quarterly. Badgley kept the table for-his employer for a period of six…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
It is an undoubted rule that a contract growing out of a transaction whose known tendency was to encourage a breach of the laws, is not to be enforced. For this reason it has been held, that an action is not maintainable for the price of drugs purchased by a brewer avowedly with a design to use them in violation of the provisions of a statute; or by an innkeeper for refreshments furnished to the defendant’s voters at an election. So an action has been held not to lie on a contract in reference to an illegal voyage, because the accessary…
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